[pwmtr]

Definitely interesting material. I realized, especially in last few years, there is an increased interest on moving away from propriety clouds/PaaS to K8s or even to bare metal, primarily driven by high prices and also interest of having more control.

At Ubicloud, we are attacking the same problem, though from a different angle. We are building an open-source alternative to AWS. You can host it yourself or use our managed services (which are 3x-10x more affordable than comparable services). We already built some primitives such as VMs, PostgreSQL, private networking, load balancers and also working on K8s.

I have a question to HN crowd; which primitives are required to run your workloads? It seems the OP's list consists of Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Secret Manager, Logging/Monitoring, Ingress and Service Mesh. I wonder if this is representative of typical requirements to run HN crowd's workloads.

[evertheylen]

Quite simple, I want to submit a Docker image, and have it accept HTTP requests at a certain domain, with easy horizontal/vertical scaling. I'm sure your Elastic Compute product is nice but I don't want to set it up myself (let alone run k8s on it). Quite like fly.io.

PS: I like what you guys are doing, I'd subscribe to your mailing list if you had one! :)